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5 ways we decode texts
I always have to look these up and my handouts are on the other computer, but I found a nice page here. Also, I can spell hermeneutic without looking it up. Now I just have to memorise the other four codes.
... That page I found links to one that uses Star Trek to teach narratology. Nifty!
Anyways... I got the other computer out to check. Needs recharging anyway.
1. proairetic - actions, things happening and then more things happening
2. hermeneutic - mysteries, things we aren't told yet, questions raised
3. cultural - stuff that is understood within a particular cultural framework. Like, clothes as signs of social class.
4. semic - connotations, stuck around a name makes a character
5. symbolic - deep themey stuff, big oppositions
There's themes like these from Great Expectations, and Beloved
Life/Death - two different spheres pulling apart, influence of the dead upon the living
Nature & Nurture
Parents & children
Mother figure (parent figure? father figure? child figure?)
Community & Family
Crime & Punishment
Respectability & Crime
What is a crime? What is a criminal?
Is Torchwood even about crime and criminals?
The Burden of the Past
Dehumanisation
In 'Beloved' that's about seeing slaves as animals. There's a shortage of slaves thus far on Torchwood. But with SF there's always the technology thing, and the other species of thinkers. Tech can be a vs, nature vs tech, or humans vs machines, but its always an & in SF.
Naming & Being named
Reading & Misreading
Class notes say Structuralists see binary oppositions as fundamental to the human way of perceiving and organising reality.
Just looking at the way Torchwood approaches sexuality we see them breaking down the binary, rubbing out all the lines and quaint little categories.
Do they do that with gender?
Reckon they're doing that with lots of big themey categories.
Torchwood specifics... Hmmm. Okay, things that turn up in every episode of Torchwood so far and might be Themes:
Past that doesn't stay in the past, like Jack, resurrection, and the ghosts.
Tech and the ways people (mis)use it.
Wanting connection, wanting to reach out and... well, several ands so far, like bring back the dead or have sex. (Note the 'or'.)
Fertility. Yes, this one is kind of a stretch, but -
1. Contraceptives in the rain. Won't get pregnant / never doing that again.
2. Fertility clinic
3. Dead baby
Yeah, definite stretch. Also, creepy.
...There's probably others. But right now I actually want to go read another chapter of something lit related, so I'll attempt that while the mood is there.
5 ways we decode texts
I always have to look these up and my handouts are on the other computer, but I found a nice page here. Also, I can spell hermeneutic without looking it up. Now I just have to memorise the other four codes.
... That page I found links to one that uses Star Trek to teach narratology. Nifty!
Anyways... I got the other computer out to check. Needs recharging anyway.
1. proairetic - actions, things happening and then more things happening
2. hermeneutic - mysteries, things we aren't told yet, questions raised
3. cultural - stuff that is understood within a particular cultural framework. Like, clothes as signs of social class.
4. semic - connotations, stuck around a name makes a character
5. symbolic - deep themey stuff, big oppositions
There's themes like these from Great Expectations, and Beloved
Life/Death - two different spheres pulling apart, influence of the dead upon the living
Nature & Nurture
Parents & children
Mother figure (parent figure? father figure? child figure?)
Community & Family
Crime & Punishment
Respectability & Crime
What is a crime? What is a criminal?
Is Torchwood even about crime and criminals?
The Burden of the Past
Dehumanisation
In 'Beloved' that's about seeing slaves as animals. There's a shortage of slaves thus far on Torchwood. But with SF there's always the technology thing, and the other species of thinkers. Tech can be a vs, nature vs tech, or humans vs machines, but its always an & in SF.
Naming & Being named
Reading & Misreading
Class notes say Structuralists see binary oppositions as fundamental to the human way of perceiving and organising reality.
Just looking at the way Torchwood approaches sexuality we see them breaking down the binary, rubbing out all the lines and quaint little categories.
Do they do that with gender?
Reckon they're doing that with lots of big themey categories.
Torchwood specifics... Hmmm. Okay, things that turn up in every episode of Torchwood so far and might be Themes:
Past that doesn't stay in the past, like Jack, resurrection, and the ghosts.
Tech and the ways people (mis)use it.
Wanting connection, wanting to reach out and... well, several ands so far, like bring back the dead or have sex. (Note the 'or'.)
Fertility. Yes, this one is kind of a stretch, but -
1. Contraceptives in the rain. Won't get pregnant / never doing that again.
2. Fertility clinic
3. Dead baby
Yeah, definite stretch. Also, creepy.
...There's probably others. But right now I actually want to go read another chapter of something lit related, so I'll attempt that while the mood is there.